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Educause 2007

Educause 2007. IST Friday Morning Seminar Andrea Chappell. Educause 2007. About 7000 attendees (sold out) from 6 continents Booked Seattle 9 years in advance Big topics in sessions Web 2.0/Social Networking Virtual worlds (esp. Second Life) SOA/Web services Identity management

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Educause 2007

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  1. Educause 2007 IST Friday Morning Seminar Andrea Chappell

  2. Educause 2007 • About 7000 attendees (sold out) from 6 continents • Booked Seattle 9 years in advance • Big topics in sessions • Web 2.0/Social Networking • Virtual worlds (esp. Second Life) • SOA/Web services • Identity management • Cyberinfrastructure • UBC is everywhere!

  3. Things I’ve Screwed Up – And How! Featured session: Gregory A. Jackson, U. of Chicago • Type A Mistakes – you were wrong and you knew it • Type B Mistakes – it didn’t seem wrong at the time, but the chance of success was too narrow. • E.g. of Type B “advancing the myth” errors • Going ahead on a budget that isn’t enough • Taking on too much • Think broadly to avoid Type B mistakes. • “The older I get, the better I was.”

  4. Information Security Keynote: Bruce Schneier , author of Beyond Fear • 10 Trends presented and reached conclusions .. • Software companies should be liable for their bugs. • Banks in US became liable for losing your money so tightened security. And besides, client can’t improve it! • Change the economics to address the issue. • Employee theft … customer doesn’t care about it, so began “your purchase free if no receipt”, and now customer “watches” the employee. • Can economic motivation improve our security?

  5. Learning to Drive (and Other Lessons Learned Along the Way) Featured presenter: Brian L. Hawkins, retiring Educause president • In order to grow: • give yourself a self-appraisal every year • prepare for the next job • have a professional growth plan • recognize that you are responsible for yourself • Know your values. • 1.5 minutes to decide whether to unplug life support for a hydrocephalic in pain and never able to communicate or even think self-consciously, what would you do? • Consistency of values is integrity.

  6. Sessions I attended • Web 2.0: The end of the LMS? • Xavier’s Web 2.0 Strategy: Virtual Learning Commons • Social Networking Tech: A “Poke” for Campus Services • Avaya’s Intelligent Communications “Student for Life” • Implementing, Supporting, and Maintaining Sakai • Live Web Conferencing (really, online Math) • Extreme Makeover: Rebuilding Admissions via Doc Imaging • Tech Impact: Interactive Digital Centres • The Pedagogy of Participation: The Conjunction of Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces

  7. Learning Management Systems • Two trends in LMS space that are true in other areas • Rise of Web 2.0 applications • Rise of viable, robust open systems • ITMS will review the LMS space starting May 2008 • To switch from ANGEL would be a very big deal! • However, these trends should form part of our review

  8. Web 2.0: The end of the LMS? • Oxford looking at lifelong learning for changing learner: K-12, higher ed., worker, manager, retiree • interactive, collaborative, user-driven, provide social networking, open • E.g., blogs (even if offline using PDA), wikis (chose MoinMoin), content syndication (OxITEMS), FaceBook • Web 2.0 is seen as amalgamating 3rd party services • New “LMS” could be skeleton for linking services • be loosely coupled through authorization (Shibboleth) • ID management is key (Shibboleth and federation).

  9. Open LMSs: Sakai at Indiana (1) • Largest installation of Sakai • 8 campuses state-wide • 98,000 students • 7000 faculty • 11,500 staff • Why Sakai? • control of destiny • collaboration for expanded functionality • teaching and learning driven • shared development costs

  10. Open LMSs: Sakai at Indiana (2) • Governance and “vision” is different in open system • Functional Requirements Committee • Gathers input from users (through a “Make a suggestion” link in the system) • Priorities Committee • Takes input from the Functional group • Determines changes on which Indiana will focus • However, Indiana came from a development of their own, and CIO on Sakai board – UW differs

  11. Math environment online • A different amalgamation • Class Management in Blackboard • Course Materials in MathZone, online math texts • Web Conferencing in Net Tutor • Movie capture by Screen Watch • "Pen tablet" by Wacom (http://www.wacom.com) • Voice over the web using Flash Communicator • Students at home use pen for math notation in MathZone • UW needs better math environment for LMS!

  12. Pedagogy of Participation (1) • My “wow” session • Combination virtual (2nd Life) and real space • Ad for 2-yr Masters Digital Media at GNW • http://youtube.com/watch?v=TEI-5NtVmCc • “Modding the MetaVerse” (vision for 1st and 2nd Life) started 4 months in advance of program • Do you need familiar pens, tables, chairs in 2nd Life? • Avatars and identity – “who are you” in 2ndvs 1st Life? • Blended realities (class met in 2nd Life and real video from 1st Life building presentation streamed in)

  13. Pedagogy of Participation (1) • Challenges and Lessons • Tech issues • a/v lag, 2nd Life user limits or down, digital divide between students (21 students, different backgrounds) • 2nd Life optimized laptops. • In 2ndLife you can model things that can't be done in real life (like a huge model of an atom). • Behaviour parameters. • A student shot at a teacher in 2nd Life, and the teacher set the student on fire ... what is acceptable? Legal issues!? • Building tutorials for using 2nd Life

  14. More info • http://www.educause.org/e07 • http://ist/~chappell/Events/educause2007

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